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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21
The Sharp Jury Incomplete.

NEW YORK, May 20.-The jury in the
Sharp case was still incomplete when the
court adjourned until Monday morning
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21

DAN ANrUNIu, LEA, may zI.-Tne FOL
lowing parties were formally sentenced in
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21

GAINESVILLE, TEX, May 21.-A rain
fell hare tonight and west of here
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21

The name or the young
outrage was pepetrated
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21

girl on Wnom the
is Augusta Krau,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21

suy SIIuIIaI 4.loUUIuS
town,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21

WASHINGTON, May 20. Secretar
Faircbild to-day issued call for all out
standing per cent. bonds, amounting t
$40, 7I76O0. The call will mature July
Circulars Offering to redeem all bonds Q
the 8 per cent. loan have been revoked
and no more bonds will be redeemed be
fore maturity.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21


WASHINGTON, May 2O.-The Secretary
of the Navy has appointed court of
inquiry to investigate the charges against
Captain Selfridge of the Omaha in regard
to the accident on the coast OF Japan, in
which several persons were killed by the
explosion of shell fired from the Omaha.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21
10 CORNER LOTS HALF PRICE !.

Texas showing all the railroads
this city, Fort Worth the of being the club st.
wheel making hundred revolutions the Everybody to
in this The 10
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
Quebec's Old Cannon.

The best part of Mr., Atkinson's mar
rative was his dramatic story of his
visit to the citadel.
IAN officer" said he, detailed a
man to show me around, and he took
me everywhere. Noticing small
black cannon, half hidden by the snow,
as Twas about to go, l said in fun; i
guess I'll take it away with me.
"'Go look at the inscription on the
breech, said the soldier, laughing.
Il looked and read:
Taken at the battle of Bunker
Hill, June IL, 1775.
II saw the soldier had me. 1t stirred
my blood and l wanted to make a fl
reply. l read the inscription over
again to gain time. Tears came to my
eyes. Young man, said to him
you've got the cannon, but we've got
Bunker Hill.-Lesciston Journal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
AN EMPTY NEST.

A grave old man and maiden fair
Walked together at early morn;
The thrushes up in the clear cool air
Sang to the farmer planting his corn.
And, oh, how sweet was the fresh turned mold |
And, oh, how fair were the budding treesl
For daisy's silver and daffodil's gold
Were full Of the happy honey-bees.
"Ah look! there's an empty nest" she said:
"And / wonder where sing the last years
birdsy'
Then the old man quickly raised his head,
Though scarcely he noted her musing words
He tore the nest from the swaying tree,
He flung to the winds its moss and hay,
And said: "When an empty nest you see
Be sure that you throw it far away"
"But whyi' she asked, with sorrowing face
why may not the pretty home abidey'
BECAUSE he answered, "'twill be place
In which the worm and the slug will hide.
Last year twas fair enough in its way
1t was full OF love, and merry with song;
But days that are gone must not spoil to-day,
Nor dead joys do the living joys wrong
The maiden heard with thoughtful face
Her first false love had gone far away
And she thought: Is my heart become place
For anger and grief and hate to stayf
Down. heart, with thy sad, forsaken nest.
Fling far thy selfish and idle pain;
The love that is ours is always the best;
And she went with a smile to her work again.
--Mdry A. Barr, IN Hdrper's Magazine.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Montreal has adopted scientific
temperance teaching and introduced
the pathfinder" series into her public
schools.
The most important feature of
mission work in India, at present, and
in fact, all the leading mission fields,
is the raising up of an educated minis
try. christian Union.
DR. Henry j. Morton, who recent
ly, after tifty-six years connection
with st. James Protestant Episcopal
Church in Philadelphia, resigned, has
been appointed rector emeritus of the
church, with the same salary that he
had as rector.
For years it has been the unwrit-
ten law of the school in Dunbarton, N.
H., that the boys who attended should
take turns in building and looking
after the fires. They have recently
struck against that sort of work, and
insist that it is time that the Board of
Education hired some one to do it.
The evangelists of the Synod Of
Kentucky, of the Southern Presbyteri-
an Church, Rev. Messrs. Hopper and
Evans, report that through their efforts
during the last year there have been
about five hundred conversions, accom-
panied by great increase of zeal
among Christians in the churches.
Lord Lawrence says: "Christian.
ity, wherever it has gone, and nowhere
more so than in India, has promoted
the dignity of woman, the sanctity Of
marriage and the brotherhood of man,
Where it has not actually converted, il
has checked and controlled; where il
has not renewed, it has refined; and
where it has not sanctified, it has soft.
ened and subdued."
One of the customs among the col
ored students of a school at Hampton
Va, in addressing notes to their school
mates is to add the place where the re-
cipient is supposed to be at the time o.
delivery, as sat Va. hall, " "at school,
sat supper" etc. In fulfilling this
custom an Indian addressed a note t.
| his teacher: 'Miss -, at anywhere
she is.
Rev. Father Matthew Harkins
pastor of ST. James Church at Boston
Mass, has been appointed Bishop o
the Diocese of Providence, to fill th'
vacancy caused by the decease o
Bishop Thomas F. Hendricken, by th'
consistory at Rome. The newly ap
pointed Bishop is a native of Boston, i
only thirty-seven years of age, and ha
been ordained fifteen years.-BoStol
Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
AN EVIL OMEN.
A Polish Superstition Which Has Been
Imported Into This Country.

A Polish Superstition Which Has Been
Imported Into This Country.
There is a venerable superstition
among Polish people that when a crow
alights on a house it portends death to
one or more of the occupants. When,
about eight O clock the other morning
couple of birds of this species were
deserted calmly perched on the roof
of one of Poland's sons on Racine
street, north of Brady, the neighbor-
hood, which is inhabited almost entire
ly by Poles, was thrown into the great
est excitement. In less than half an
hour the street was filled with people,
the proportions of the crowd attract
ing the attention of the police. Hostile
demonstrations caused the sable-hued
birds to fly to an adjoining roof. Up
popped an upper story window in the
next house, woman's hand appeared,
and in evident alarm the woman
waved an apron menacingly at the
''birds of evil omen" Instead of being
frightened away the crows took the
waving of the apron as mark of well
come and changed their position from
the roof of her neighbor to her own
housetop By this time the excitement
of the crowd below had grown to a
fever pitch Women were shedding
tears or mumbling prayer, while
little children clung to their skirts,
unable to make out what was the mat
ter. Men and women gathered in
knots, all gesticulating and jabberiug
at once, but all keeping weather eye
open and a pocketful of stones ready
in case the birds should steer for their
own premises.
Finally the crows began to fly from
house to house, and then there was a
shower of stones as thick as hail,
men, women and boys being engaged
in the fusilade amid the most indescrib-
able excitement The birds flew
from house to house until they had
taken in the entire square. Finally
they distanced their yelling pursuers.
As the people returned to their homes
many offered prayers for themselves
and families. One old man who be
lieves in the superstition said in his
broken English:
ut must be so, now, that we all die.
You see, some terrible sickness spread
among s."-MlUaukee Sentinel.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
WASHIN GTON FADS.
Two of the Latest Kinks Affected by the
Snobocracy on the Potomac.

Two of the Latest Kinks Affected by the
snobocracy on the Potomac.
Desperate attempts are being made
to train young citizens of African de-
scent for service as pages. Clothed in
CAV liveries, with crests or initials on
the large buttons, the little darkys are
expected to follow their mistresses
when they go shopping, or to pay calls,
and on reception days they are to stand
at the door with u silver waiter for the
reception of cards. 1t is very hard,
however, to discipline them, and on
one or two occasions they have made
statements to visitors which have pro-
duced deal of trouble. especially at
the house of Brigadier-General.
where the visitor was told, after wait
ing some time: II can't find missus,
though she was here just now, but l
guess she must have seen you coming,
and slipped out the back way" Dogs
are becoming more and more numer-
Gus at the West End, but the damsels
who used to carry dainty little King
Charles spaniels and Scotch terriers
now have gigantic st. Bernard, New
foundlands or settlers, which they lead
in triumph, carrying in the other hand
formidable dog-whip. Some of the
CANNES have their wardrobes of
blankets thick and thin. for different
seasons, plain for everyday use and
elaborately worked for dog parties and
festive occasions. A ease or two of
hydrophobia at the West End will
make matters decidedly lively there
Ben: Perley Poore, ia Boston Budget.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
A Peculiar SANDER Case.

A case of slander tried in the
mayors court settled question of
some Importance to student of the
English language. The plaintiff, a
tish-hawker at Billingsgate, sued the
keeper of coffee tavern near Billings
gate Market for fifty pounds sterling
damages for slande ror fcalling him a
"robber." As it was not alleged that
the plaintiff had suffered any especial
damage" from the words, the ques-
ton for the decision of the jury was
whether the word "robber," fortified
as it had been with some other
epithets, was slanderous as imputing
criminal offense, or was merely
"vulgar abuse" and so not action
able. On the part of the defense, an
attempt was made to show that the
term "robber," as used in Billings
gate, merely meant a clever man, and
was rather complimentary than other
wise. The jury of the mayors court,
however, thought differently, and
awarded the injured plaintiff five
guineas as damages. - Pail Nal
| Gazette
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
A COLD RECEPTION.
An Experience in the Mountains Whic
Speaks Ill for Western Hospitality.

Speaks Ill for Western Hospitality.
"These mountaineers are the most
hospitable people on earth. 1t is a rude
but genuine hospitality. They would
share their last loaf with stranger
within their gates. The latch string
hangs out for all.
We were riding down a steep Rocky
Mountain trail, my friend Clate and |,
when Clate made the remarks quoted.
He was an enthusiast over the noble
traits of the honest miner and mount
aineer. Certain experiences of my own
had made me skeptical on the subject.
At the base of the mountain stood
little log cabin.
Now" said Clate, "I'll prove my
theory. It's past dinner time and we're
both hungry as wolves. I'll wager
any thing you like that we'll get good
square meal at that cabin free of
charge"
Five minutes later we stood before
the closed door of the cabin.
Hello! ~ roared Clate.
There was no reply.
Hello, say !"
This time Clate raped loudly on the
door, There being no response he
lifted the latch, when the door swung
open showing no one within, although
the cabin was evidently being occu-
pied.
"All rightr' cried Clate, cheerily.
"Come on in, Ned, and We'll forage
round and see what we can find in the
commissary. The folks won't care.
They've left the door open on purpose
for wayfarers like us to step in and
help themselves. It's just like them.
It's your Westerner who knows what
true hospitality is"
Clate 'foraged around" for some
time, but all he could find was piece
of dry salt pork and few potatoes.
"We'll help ourselves to what there
is" said Clate, cheerily. "You build
fire, Ned. We're welcome to what
we've found, I'll bet on that, for
He stopped. A tall, lank, grim-vis.
aged woman, with leathern-looking
face, suddenly appeared at back door.
She saw Clate, and yelled out:
Drop them taters!'
"Why, madam, IL
"You drop them tatersr'
I'VE are strangers, you see, madam.
and"
''Drop EN-"
A short gun hung on the wall. She
snatched it down, brought it to her
shoulder with jerk and said:
drop them taters too quick"
Clate dropped them.
"Drop that pork"
Clate dropped it.
Now you fellers git"
l had already got, but Clate, abashed
and rebuked though he was, fingered
until the shotgun was again pointed
toward him and the woman said:
"Clear YOURSELF I'll learn you how
to walk into body's house and helT
yourself to ones vittles. That bacor
and them taters amt to be bought fol
love nor money. let alone ct up by yoJ
uns fer nothin'. Now you light OUT"
We ''lit out" hungry and crest
fallen, and Clate has been dumb evel
since on the subject of Western hos
| pitslity.-Zenas Dane. IN Detroit Ere
! Press
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
One Dollar Per Year,
PERSONAL AND LITERARY

DR.. Lenz is the tenth white man
who has crossed Africa from sea to
sea.
Lolita, who upon tbo stage looks
about twenty years old, was forty the
other day.
George Francis Train gives his au-
tograph to every body who asks for it,
and predicts that it will sell for $40 in
five years.
Francis Darnall and his seventeen.
year-old son visited Griffin, Ga, the
other day, and crowds followed them.
The father is four feet four inches tall
and the son three feet one inch.
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt has pearl
necklace which consists of 346 oriental
pearls set in golden chain, which
once belonged to the Empress Eugene.
1t cost $l30, 900. N. Y. Herald.
Mrs. Lizzie Pauline Sawyers, OF
Washington, and Mrs. President Cleve'
land are so much alike that it is with
difficulty that they can be distinguished
from each other Washington Post.
Joseph Waukazu, full-blooded
Indian from White Earth reservation,
has been ordained an Episcopalian
minister in Minnesota. He is hand
some man, thirty-nine years old and
remarkably intelligent.
Lieutenant j. w. Danenhower, Of
of the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
one of the survivors of the exploring
steamer Jeanette, has received, under
an act of Congress reimbursing the
officers and crew of the Inflated vessel,
the sum of one thousand dollars.
Alfred Tennyson has been En-
glands poet laureate since 1850, a
longer period than the honor was held
by any of his predecessors. Colley
Cibber enjoyed the distiction from
1880 to 1857 and Robert Southey from
1918 to 1843 all the others, from Ed
mund Spenser down, for much shorter
terms.
Stephen Bryant, a negro aged one
hundred and twenty-three years, died
recently at Beaufort, S. c. His only
claim to distinction, aside from his
great age, was the fact that he had
ever served as body-servant to
George Washington, though he had
once waited at table where the Father
of his Country feasted.
The authorship of the-familiar war
poem the first line of which runs "All
quiet along the Potomac tonight, is
once more subject of correction. In
Mrs. James Brown Potter's collection
of articles known as my Recollec-
tions," it is credited to "Mrs. How
land" This poem" says c. Eliot
Beers, twas written by Mrs. Ethel
Lynn Beers, my mother, in Septem'
Der, 1861, and published in Harper's
Weekly of November 80, 1861"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
HUMOROUS.

-Customer-"Are you sure this
bread is fresh, bakerP" Fresh Baker
"Well, l should say so-it's to-mor-
VOWS"
M. l.. Holbrook has written book
on "How to Strengthen the Memory. 7
He omits the most fashionable of
strengtheners-that of tying string
about the foretinger. Life.
-Colored Hunter-"H Hold on dar,
Abe! You'll strain dat gun fus' thing
you know, tryin' ter shoot dat duck SO
far off, an de weepon nebber will be no
mo- count. ."-Teras Sytings.
The Household says: 1.-The COM
ing girl will walk five miles day"
Now, if we only knew where the COM
ing girl started from we could ind out
when she would get here,-Neo HaUen
NeWS.
The Industrious Damsel.--
A damsel who knew how to knit
For hours with her needle would ksit
And the stockings she knitted
Were handsome and Knitted
Without ever wrinkling kbit :.
Boston Courier.
First Knight of Labor-"What do
sou suppose Smith said the first time he
saw that baby of hisP" Second
Knight-''Give it up. What did he
sayP" First Knight" Let's make a
knight of it, Burlington Free Press.
Expressive Mr.. Livingston Van
Ripper (of New York )-"May l have the
pleasure of part of the next waltz, Miss
Frankfortpn Miss Frankfort (whose
father owns a Kentucky stock FARM
Thanks, awfully, but I've darnced so
much, Tn most foundered. Puck.
-Mistress-"The coffee is so strong
this morning that it's absolutely bitter,
Kathleen" Maid-"Yes, ma'am. Til
policeman an this b&e do be COM
| plainin' av tn wakeness av it all win
ter, an durin' tn cowld wither cook is
afther humorin' tn poor fellow bit. "
lid Bits.
Will Be on Hand.-Gentleman
am sorry, Uncle Rastus, that | can't do
any thing for you this morning, but
charity, you know, begins at home. "
Uncle Rastus-"All right, Mr.. Smif-
all right, sab. I'll call round at your
house bout seven dis ebenin', sah."-
Hdrper's Bdzdr.
"A full-blooded Indian has been
ordained a deacon in church at Min.
neapolis." We find this item in good
many of our exchanges, and the fact
that no one of them has taken advan
tage of it to suggest that the new dea'
con must be Lo churchman speak,
volumes for the self-restraint of tn,
American paragrapher.-NK T. Tribune
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
PICKING UP A LIVING.
How Two Impecunious Englishmen MAJ
age to Exc Out an Existence.

age TO Exc Out an Existence.
The odd behavior of a young man at
the hotels and other public resorts of
the city recently aroused the curiosity
of a reporter, who managed to make
his acquaintance. He proved to be the
inventor of a novel way of making a
living. He is about twenty-five years
of age, tall, gentlemanly-looking, and
dressed in clothes of good material
well cut and made, but much worn.
He seemed to rangeSn all places in the
central part of the city, where large
numbers congregate, and his actions
were invariably the same. He would
walk into a hotel in brisk but SEEM
ingly unoccupied manner and in turn
patronize the rotunda, writing, wait
ing, billiard rooms, and other offices
on the main floor. A discarded news
paper seemed to be magnet whose
power he was unable to resist Seat
ing himself on the chair containing the
paper he would take it up. read par
agrsph, fold it quickly, and then the
sheet would disappear. This would be
repeated until every thing in the shape
of reading matter would be garnered
in. He was evidently practiced hand
at this work, as without exciting at.
tention and in a most inobstrusive
manner he cleared wide swath in a
very short time. When he had sppro-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
PRICE OF PEARLS.
Expensive Collections Owned by European
Royalty and Nobility.

Although pearl weighing one grain
is worth only about one-eighth of the
price of diamond of the same weight,
it is very easy to spend large amount
of money for pearl jewelry. There is
now in the market a pearl necklace
worth f25,000. l have seen another
worth $4,000, and one was recently sold
for about ESQ These large prices are
caused by the difficulty of obtaining
particular sizes and colors that may be
wanted.
The most expensive collection Of
pearls on record is that owned by the
Countess of Dudley, which is far more
valuable than the celebrated pearls be-
longing to the Queen. The Countess
has a coronet of pearls. The top is
composed of pear-shaped pearls. There
is very large one in the center, and
the others are graduated in size down
to the smallest.
In order to get these pear-shaped
pearls in the requisite sizes and colors
the jewellers were obliged to buy such
an enormous quantity of pearls that
when the famous necklace was COM
pleted, with earrings, bracelets and
brooch, and fnger-ring to match, they
had f75, worth of odd pearls left.
A pair of matched pear-shaped pearls,
weighing 10 grains. were recently
sold for f1,250.
When the Princess Royal of England
married Frederick William of Prussia
she received necklace of thirty-two
pearls, costing f22,000. In 1889 the
French Government possessed pearls
valued at f50,000 One that weighed
1OS grains was valued at $4,000. Two
that were pear-shaped were valued at
f14000.
The black pearls bring very high
prices at present, but genuine pearls
may be bought that are white, pink or
gray. The peculiar color which is
called pearl is sort of transparent
drab. There is at present a greater
demand for pearls, as there is in fact
for all kinds of jewelry, than there has
been known for a long time. The
plentifulness of limitations does not ap-
pear to destroy the value of the genu-
inc article. Cor. Paa0nbroEerS' Ga
| zette,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
a Genuine Freak.

Proprietor (dime m)-You say
that you want to appear before the
public in the character of a phenonGe-
non. What's your particular specially? |?
Phenomenon-Phenomenal business
capacity. Two years ago l began 90
advertise my business on fence boaids.
and only failed week before last
Drdke's 7rarelers' Maoazine.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
Princeton College is to have

Princeton College is to have a
woman's "annex." The requirements
for admission and curriculum will be
the same as in the university. 1t viii
be known as Evelyn College, and will
be under the Presidency of Rev. DIR. j.
II. McIlvaine.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07
The last report of the International

The last report of the International
Committee of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association makes the startling
assertion that seventy-five per cent. of
the young men of this country are
never seen inside of any church; that
only fifteen per cent. of them can be
called church-goers, and that but five
per cent. are communicates. ~ Y.
HitnesS.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07

1t is stated in Medical Missions at
Home and Abroad" that an active
movement in favor of Christianity is
going on among the Chuhras people
of the lower caste) in the Puniauh-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07

Experiments in tobacco culture in
South Florida, says the Savannah
NelcS, have been made with encourage
ing results on a limited scale.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-07

Now, which one Of its authors will
emulate Tennyson and write "Beauti-
full Snow Sixty Years After. PITTS
bErgh Chronicle.